Definitions for threat

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Spelling: [thret]

IPA: /θrɛt/

Threat is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in threat (aehrtt).

Definitions for threat

noun

1. a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace:
2. an indication or warning of probable trouble:
3. a person or thing that threatens.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Archaic. to threaten.

Origin of threat

before 900; (noun) Middle English threte, Old English thrēat pressure, oppression; cognate with Old Norse thraut hardship, bitter end; (v.) Middle English threten, Old English thrēatian to pr

Examples for threat

And you forget that—that devil—suppose she's as good as her threat?

One threat which he used again and again, discovers all his world-blindness to me.

"I'll have you before his honour," is the threat of an Irishman who hopes for partiality.

But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.

The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.

When communism was a threat, it was construed as a communist plot.

He did not seem particularly alarmed at her threat—or, perhaps, he did not care.

Then I shall have to put it out of your power to carry out your threat.

“The threat streams to U.S. interests and Western interests are off the chart,” he said.

But this war jumps from city to city, depending the threat of the day.